Perfume-vial



A. VE'RICEL.

PERFUME VIAL.

APPUCATION FILED 1 JAN.3I, I819.

Patented May 25, 1920.

INVENTOR WIT A TTOHNEYS barrie ANTOINE VERICEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO LES FLEURS DE CRISTAL, INQ,

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Application filed. January 31-, 19.1%).

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that l, Aivromn Venice's, a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of 5 liew York, have invented a new and Improved Perfume-Vial, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to perfumery and aims to provide a new and improved method of disseminating perfume and to provide an improved perfume vial.

With the prevailing methods of the use of perfume; it is not feasible to use the concentrated, undiluted perfume oils, for the reason that evaporation of the oil takes place rapidly so that in a relatively short time the scent ceases to be diffused. In or der to obtain satisfactory results in the use of perfume, it is desirable to divide perfume oil into infinitestimal particles to be exposed for evaporation. To this end, it has been common 1) notice to dissolve the perfiiune oil in a much larger bulk of alcohol; as. for example, one part of oil in two hundred parts of alcohol. Such solution provides the perfumes of commerce. In this manner considerable quantities of alcohol are used merely as a vehicle and without adding any desirable material to the perfume. Furthermore, the alcohol. introduces a staining property affecting some fabrics not stained by the perfume oils. The present invention provides, with other features, a method of dispensing perfume without the use of as alcohol. The invention also provides a vial involving novel features of broad application.

The desired evaporation of certain perfume oils may be obtained if minute drops or particles thereof are exposed to contact with the air for evaporation. This is accomplished in accordance with the present invention by providing capillary means through which the perfume oil passes to contact with the air.

In the accompanying drawings forming part hereof is shown, for the purposes of explanation, an illustrative form of vial which may be used to disseminate the scent of perfume oil placed therein. The use of vials of the character shown is not limited, however, to this use. and it is to be understood that the present invention involves several features of via] construction inde- Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 2?4,318.

pendent of the use herein more particularly explained.

Tieference is to be had to the accompanymg drawings, forming part of this specification, in which like characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side view of the complete device showing the perfume vial in the supportingholder;

Fig. 2 is a central sectional view showing the vial before it is filled;

Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view showing the vial filled, sealed, and the porous material and stylet in position;

Fig. 4- is a view similar to Fig. 3 to show the frangible wall broken for use; and

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 55, Fig. 3.

The device shown comprises a perfume carrier and a porous material through which the perfume passes to the air for evaporation.

The vial shown is made of glass and provides a perfume chamber 1 together with a socket 2 at one end thereof to hold a capillary material 3. The soclret 2 is in the form of a reentrant cup formed from the material of the vial and made frangible by being made thin, especially at the bottom thereof. The wall 4, separating the socket or recess 2 from the perfume chamber 1, may readily be fractured to open communication. as by inserting a pin through the socket. The vial may be hermetically sealed when filled to avoid the evaporation or escape of the perfume. The capillary material 3, or other porous material, provides support for a stylet 5 which serves as a means for fracturing the socket wall 4 to open communication between the socket and perfume chamber, permitting escape of the perfume oil to the porous material and therefore, therethrough. The reentrant cupshaped recess provides a convenient means for holding the porous material through which the perfume must pass to evaporate, and provides an easily formed frangible wall between the perfume and porous material, the wall being so positioned that it is well protected against accidental fracture. The stylet is inserted through the porous material, the point bearing against the bottom of the socket and the head thereof projecting sufficiently to be conveniently pressed by the user to force the stylet through the bottom of the recess or socket. After the fracture the stylet is left in place and serves to close a hole made by it through the porous material.

The porous material in the socket may consist, for example of ground wool fiber agglomerated with acacia gum. Such material is only capillarily porous, a feature desirable in the use of the vial with certain perfume oils. The material may be compressed more or less as desired in particular uses or to obtain desired efiects.

Manifestly, other capillary means than as above described may be employed to accomplish the object sought.

A holder is provided having a socket 8 to receive the vial, and a spring clip 9 extending along the side of the vial to form therewith a clamp. The clip may be cemented to the vial or may merely hold the same by frictional engagement.

In use the vial is attached to the clothing of the user. If attached right side up, as shown in the drawings, the capillarily porous material will be wet intermittently as the perfume splashes thereagainst, and sufficient will pass therethrough to provide a mild perfume. If a stronger perfume is desired, the vial may be tipped or entirely inverted to constantly wet the porous material so there will be a more constant and greater flow, thus giving a more rapid evaporation and a stronger scent.

The device illustrated constitutes a fieur de cristalor glass flower, the vial being formed to represent the corolla and the holder being formed to represent the calyx and stem. The vial itself corresponds in shape to the corolla of a flower and is enlarged at its upper end, thus representing the flare of the flower blossom. The porous material. corresponds in appearance to a stamen field in the center of which the stylet simulates a pistil.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A vial providing a container chamber and an outwardly open socket, with a frangible wall separating said chamber and socket,

and porous material in said socket to conduct liquid from the container chamber to the air when the frangible wall is broken.

2. A vial providing a container chamber and an outwardly open socket, with a frangible wall separating said chamber and socket, capillarily porous material in said socket, and means supported in said material to break said frangible wall.

3. A perfume vial having a perfume chamber and a reentrant cup'shaped portion providing an externally presented recess, a porous material in said recess, and a stylet movable through said material and arranged to be actuated to open communication between said perfume chamber and said recess.

4. A device of the character described comprising a hermetically-scalable vial affording a perfume chamber, and a reentrant outwardly open cup having a' relatively frangible wall, porous material filling said cup, and a stylet positioned in and projecting through said porous material and movable inwardly to fracture the frangible wall to open communication between the chamber and cup.

5. A device of the character described comprising a vial affording a container chamber and a reentrant outwardly open socket separated from said container chamber by a frangible wall, porous material in said socket, and means for fracturing the frangible wall to open communication be tween said container chamber and said socket.

6. A device of the character described comprising a vial affording a perfume chamber, and a reentrant, relatively frangible cup presenting outwardly a restricted opening, and capillarily porous material filling said cup, and a stylet positioned in said porous material and having a head outwardly projecting and conveniently accessible for forcing the stylet inwardly, said stylet being arranged when so forced inwardly to break the frangible cup to open communication between the interior of the vial and the rentrant cup containing the porous material.

ANTOINE VlilR-lClEL. 

